Visayas and Mindanao will experience mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms becoming frequent rains over the western sections which may trigger flashfloods and landslides. The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to at times cloudy skies with isolated rainshowers or thunderstorms mostly in the afternoon or evening.
PRESIDENT
GLORIA ARROYO (top photo) on Monday picks ripe Jatropha,
whose seeds are an alternative source of bio-diesel.
Surging fuel prices are making people look at all sorts
of alternatives, like taking the Metro Rail Transit
(bottom photo). Photos By Malacañang and Ruy Martinez
Break signaled giving up on fiscal targets
A tax exemption granted recently by the
government to minimum-wage earners could damage the Philippines’
macroeconomic gains, the World Bank warned.
“I truly believe that the macroeconomic effect
of [the tax relief] will be more damaging because what would happen
is that the Philippines will signal that it would give up a little
bit some fiscal consolidation,” Bert Hofman, World Bank country
director for the Philippines, told reporters on Monday.
The government, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp.
and the Lopez Group have initiated talks on the possibility of
converting an existing oil pipeline that will make compressed
natural gas (CNG) available to the transport sector.
The Senate must concur with the ratification of
the Japan-Philippine Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) before
November or it will be left behind by the rest of the Southeast
Asian nations, Sen. Mar Roxas said Monday.
The offer is
equivalent to P240 per metric ton, which translates to an annual
savings of P700 million for MMDA
Rodriguez, Rizal: Mayor Pedro
Cuerpo on Monday challenged Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA)
Chairman Bayani Fernando to accept his offer to use the Montalban
landfill if “he is serious with his desire” to decongest the
Metropolis and end its decades-old garbage problem.
PROPERTY research firms warned of a looming glut
in the business process outsourcing (BPO) office space and
condominium segments of the local industry.
SOUTHPORT, England: Padraig
Harrington became the first European in over a century to retain the
British Open title with a nerveless display down the stretch at
Royal Birkdale on Sunday.
New high-tech Japanese electronic display can instantly identify people's sex or age range and target them with advertisements to suit them, maker NEC Corp. said Friday.
Today is the end of the National Disability Prevention and
Rehabilitation, or NDPR, Week. Since July 19 various programs all
over the country have been celebrating the 30th year that the
National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation movement has
devoted seven days to highlight the necessary work in Philippine
society to make opportunities for improvement and achieving
excellence accessible to persons with disabilities.
SINGAPORE: Political prisoners in
Myanmar and a Thai-Cambodia border crisis dominated talks between
Southeast Asian foreign ministers Monday, pushing a bold new EU-style
charter to the sidelines.
In the middle of rainforest in Borneo, hundreds
of people from across the world—from the blond and blue-eyed, to
the ebony-skinned, to the sun-tanned—all became gloriously
mud-brown.
